Trafficante crime family

The Trafficante crime family is a family of the American Mafia from the city of Tampa, Florida, founded in 1925 by Ignacio Antinori. The family was taken over by Santo Trafficante Sr. after Antinori was murdered by rival gangster Charlie Wall in 1940, and Wall would himself be killed in 1955 by the Trafficante family. The Trafficante family was involved in gambling, prostitution, and numbers rackets in both Florida and Cuba, although its Cuban operations would be shut down after Fidel Castro's communist takeover of Cuba in 1959. The Trafficante family was involved with drug trafficking, racketeering, loansharking, corruption, prostitution, money laundering, and bookmaking during the 21st century, and it had around 20 members.